Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 27, 2018

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    Namrepus  over 6 years ago

    Then: Looking forward to being a senior in high school. Now: Looking forward to senior discounts. Then: Into hip-hop. Now: Looking into hip replacement. Then: Had dreams of being famous. Now: Accepting that will only happen if they name a medical condition after me.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 6 years ago

    times certainly have changed

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    howtheduck  over 6 years ago

    I love those dentist/dermatologists. They work by the skin of your teeth.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 6 years ago

    All the grown-up activities you hoped for.

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    31768  over 6 years ago

    Don’t worry Lu! Your list will get more boring as you go along. It is not the same when eveything is taken care of for you than when everything is up to you to be taken care of. The list is a true “ad – hoc” operation. It changes constantly.

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    live2read  over 6 years ago

    ♪♪Changes♪♪ – David Bowie♪♪That Was Yesterday♪♪ – Foreigner♪♪1985♪♪ – Bowling for Soup

    Any others you all can think of?

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    Roy G Biv  over 6 years ago

    No, Luann. That’s just a list of chores. They shouldn’t take you more than a few days.

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    Here’s your to-do list for the summer:

    1) Have a torrid love affair with Jack. Or Gunther. Or Tara.

    2) Join a summer theater company. As an actor. Or an acting coach. Or a stage designer. Remember, you’re a genius at all three.

    3) Go on a road trip with Tara.

    4) Go to alt-indie concerts and movies that would be inappropriate for a 13-year-old.

    5) Hang out on the beach when you’re not working.

    6) Make plans to move on from Junior College to a four-year college.

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    That should make for a busy and memorable summer, the kind that college kids should have.

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    Joe1962  over 6 years ago

    it’s all being an adult !and that list gets longer with age.

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    wiatr  over 6 years ago

    Ah, those lazy, hazy days of Summer!

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    kenhense  over 6 years ago

    “Add hours at work.” “Get second job.” Luann is scraping money for something. Maybe to move out of the nest. It’s time – and better material going forward. Could be interesting if Luann & Tara get a place together.

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    Rosette  over 6 years ago

    With the exception of the added work hours and additional job, all of those tasks could be completed within a week. Don’t be so dramatic, Luann – you’ll still have plenty of time to waste the Summer!

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    llong65  over 6 years ago

    the difference between childhood and adulthood.

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    Tyge  over 6 years ago

    Sigh! It happens to all of us. Some sooner, some later.

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    Tyge  over 6 years ago

    Now. Tone up. Go buy a bikini. Flaunt it at the beach! :o)

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    Mordock999 Premium Member over 6 years ago

    Jeeze Luann! If you think THAT current “to do” list is bad, just wait until you’re married with childern. THAT “list” will be 30 times as big. And that list will be on a legal pad because the “kids” will have that laptop and be playing “Overwatch” on it…..

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    tcayer  over 6 years ago

    The scary part is, she had to make a list for the first panel…

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    flagmichael  over 6 years ago

    Since March 27 our family has experienced an arsonist who tried to trap our five adults and three children (3 generations) in a burning house, have lived in hotels until last weekend; returned to a house with no furnishings, kitchenware, etc. My daughter began a job in Albuquerque and found a rental house yesterday… we are renting a truck to move all her stuff in two weeks. At work I am in the last weeks of a major project involving almost 100 documents. If all goes well today may be my first day of relative leisure in the last two months. Time to put your game face on, Luann!

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    Ignatz Premium Member over 6 years ago

    And then there’s retirement. Nap. Enjoy the park. Read. Write. Go to shows. Pet cats.

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    seismic-2 Premium Member over 6 years ago

    Yet another “then” vs. “now” strip aimed at showing that the life of a young teen is fun, fun, fun and the life of a young adult is drudge, drudge, drudge. With that attitude towards young adulthood, is it any wonder that the creators would rather make strips about a 13-year-old than about a college student? Isn’t there any joy at all in college life any more?

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    Airman  over 6 years ago

    Old movie title, “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” has been fulfilled by the coming of smart phones and lap tops.

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    rshive  over 6 years ago

    I and my friends never had binge TV watching during the summer. We were too busy doing stuff outside.

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    luann1212  over 6 years ago

    This is such a cute and true Sunday foible. I like the way it shows how, in the last 5-10 years, we have gone from writing notes about to-do lists in cursive on paper, to typing them on a computer. Even more current would be doing it on an app on a phone/device/gadget. The shift into more adult responsibility is a nice segue from what Luann has been doing in the whole Fay arc. I know I always get accused of being an hopeless promoter of the strip, and of Luann herself of course, but this panel is one of the reasons why I still follow this strip after over 30 years.

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    SeanNelson  over 6 years ago

    Puddles getting old?

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    ttuerff  over 6 years ago

    She forgot one: “Come up with better ideas for Sunday strips”

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    luann1212  over 6 years ago

    The Puddles comments have me worried. Like in “For Better or Worse” I was emotionally affected (true) when the dog Farley died rescuing one of the children. The difference there was that Farley was not that old in comic time, and died a hero, and FBOW is somewhat based on a real family. However Puddles is getting pretty old for a dog. Please let’s not go there.

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    Teto85 Premium Member over 6 years ago

    My girls are having a Harry Potter binge this weekend.

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    ACTIVIST1234  over 6 years ago

    How about continuing your education— create a work of art, write a paper for next year, draw a nude?

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    Code the Enforcer  over 6 years ago

    First, hand written on paper. After (now), the laptop being typed and tapped into has PLENTY of Reality Bytes!! ;)

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    Schrodinger's Dog  over 6 years ago

    I find it interesting that Greg attempted to re-create his old drawing style for Luann in the first panel.

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    Mijo94  over 6 years ago

    The life of a kid vs the life of an adult. No worries Lu, the key is balance. Once you find it, your summers can be decent and even fun

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    JayBluE  over 6 years ago

    “The Summertime Of All Fears”

    “Air, And Forced Fun”

    “No More Patriot Games”

    “A Fugitive From Fun”

    “Raters Of The Lost Spark”

    “Star Chores”

    “The Empire Has No Life-Hack”

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    “Return Of The Red-Eye”

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    JayBluE  over 6 years ago

    This isn’t a general “teenhood vs. adulthood” thing, per se. This is more so a “How a teen Luann feels about summers now, and worrying about her future” vs. “How a kid Luann has no idea what Grad School and gas prices going up can do to your insides”.

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    Or, pretty much, “the-day when Willy Wonka actually got a headache and regretted attending his first board meeting, at 19 years old”.

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    Or….“the time when the guy who created Lego©®™ s built his first prototype as a teen, fresh out of HS, ironically thought, for a second (before getting the supply bill), that it’d all be ‘easy-peasy child’s play (leg godt)’…and a snap….”

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    SukieCrandall Premium Member over 6 years ago

    AIRMAN Thank you, and heads up since I think you will appreciate Fort Knox which is strip about a military family and their friends.

    https://www.gocomics.com/fortknox/2018/05/27

    (On the more standard days it has wonderful jokes beyond the overt one, too, often little messages on walls or cabinets, small background images with their own jokes or coordinating jokes, changing clothing, etc.)

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    JayBluE  over 6 years ago

    To give some more perspective on the " ‘Now Luann’ vs. the ‘Then Luann’ ", there’s this seemingly-unrelated article relating Adele with how Millenials now “feel as if they’re somehow ‘old’, starting at age 20-27”.

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    https://www.elle.com/culture/a32470/the-problem-with-adele/

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  over 6 years ago

    Tanning? Not on that skin and dangerous to do anyway. Do you love wrinkles? An melanomas and pre-cancerous growths removed etc.

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    Sisyphos  over 6 years ago

    And some people wonder why Peter Pan wanted never to grow up!

    Sigh. Carry on, Ms. DeGroot….

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    Mordock999 Premium Member over 6 years ago

    Today should bring Good News for those that have been “wondering……,”

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    Fiammata  over 6 years ago

    Surely, we all wish our own dogs would last as long as hers.

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